It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face… — Confucius Copy Share Image
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the… — MURS Copy Share Image
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say:… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes… — Adam Hasner Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. — John Fahey Copy Share Image
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
